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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Borderland (2025)
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Follow the Hunt is a black metal band from Oostende, Belgium, formed in 2020. The band channels the cold, aggressive spirit of black metal from the Belgian coastal city.
Folteraar is a black metal project from the Netherlands, active since 2016. Their releases Vertellingen van een Donkere Eeuw and Vexatie embody 'Puur Zwart Kwaad' — pure black evil — delivering Dutch-language black metal stripped to its most hostile and unforgiving essence.
Foltest is a black metal band from Angers, France, formed in 2020. The band creates dark, atmospheric black metal from the Maine-et-Loire capital.
Fomhoraigh is a black metal project that began in Moscow and relocated to Minsk, formed in 2021. Named after the Fomorians of Irish mythology, they bridge Russian and Belarusian black metal traditions through a Celtic mythological lens.
Foothill Roots is an atmospheric folk/black metal project from Galway, Ireland, active since 2020 and blending Irish folk traditions with atmospheric black metal. The project draws on the wild landscapes of the west of Ireland.
For Aeons is a blackened death metal band from Hesse, Germany, formed in 2020. The band creates dense, suffocating blackened death metal from central Germany.
For Ruin is a melodic black/death metal band from Cork, Ireland, one of the longest-running extreme metal acts in the Munster region with origins dating back to 2004. The project blends melodic hooks with black and death metal aggression.
Forakt is a black metal project from Risor on Norway's southern coast, formed in 2020. Their name — Norwegian for 'contempt' — captures the misanthropic essence of their black metal from the picturesque but isolated Agder coastline.
Foraoisi gan Iniuchadh is a depressive black metal project from Wexford, Ireland, active since 2021, whose Irish-language name translates to 'forests without exploration.' The project channels the untamed Irish countryside into raw DSBM.
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